Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi told reporters in Tehran that, "We consider this package an appropriate basis, an acceptable basis (for talks)."
"Now is an appropriate opportunity for Iran and Europe to enter detailed negotiations," he said. "Sending the dossier to the U.N. Security Council means blocking and rejecting talks."
Iran is not even close to accepting our offer! All the Iranian spokesman said is we can take your position, take our position (which is much different), and move forward to bridge the differences. Really, this is all about buying more time for Iran to go nuclear.
So this response should not be acceptable to us. It is clearly unacceptable.
The only question is will those internationalist types who love bottled water, oak conference tables, and transcripts in French and English think that any Iranian response that doesn't involve emptying a revolver into our envoy constitutes an acceptable answer that keeps that all-important "process" going.
Perhaps Iran will quietly offer to call off Hizbollah (for now) in exchange for accepting this answer as good enough.
So, is Iran's nonresponse UNacceptable? Stay tuned.
